Hame attachment.



G. SIEGENTHALER. HAME ATTACHMENT. APPLIOATION FILED DEO.14, 1907.

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Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

GEORGE SIEGENTHALER, OF FREMONT, OHIO.

HAME ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 3, 1908.

Application filed December 14, 1907. Serial No. 406,563.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE SIEGENTHALER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fremont, in the county of Sandusky and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in I-Iame Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in hame attachments, and has for its object the provision of an interchangeable, adjustable, combined trace holder and breast strap holder.

The invention further consists in the novel construction and arrangement of the hameattachment, and its combination with the hame bar, as hereinafter more fully described, illustrated in the drawing, and more hame bar, as hereinafter more fully departicularly pointed out in the claim hereunto appended.

In the drawing: Figure l is a view in front elevation of a hame-bar, having one of my interchangeable, adjustable hame-attachments ap lied thereto. Fig. 2 is a side elevation 0 Fig. 1, and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the attachment.

This invention is designed as an improve ment on my invention for hame attachments for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me October 6, 1896, No. 568,880. In that invention the hame attachments were designed to be made in rights and lofts, that is, each pair of hames required a right hand attachment for the right hand hame-bar, and a left hand attachment for the left hand hame-bar. In the present invention I have designed an attachment that may be used on either hame-bar, thus doing away with the necessity for two distinct attachments for each pair of hames. This construction not only reduces the cost of manufacture of a pair of hames, but is also found to be exceedingly convenient and inexpensive in making repairs.

Referring to the drawing, the numeral 1 indicates a hame-bar, and 2 the usual metallic strip secured thereon. The hame-bar for which this attachment is designed has its draft-sustaining portion, that portion lying between the lines wm, mm, being about five inches of its length, of practically the same size.

The numeral 3 indicates my interchangeable, adjustable combined trace and'breaststrap holder.

4 indicates the trace-loo or holder, and 5 the breast-strap ring-holding bracket. The numerals 7, 7, indicate bands for holding said traceloop and breast-strap ring-holding bracket to the hame-bar. For the purpose of strength and rigidity I prefer to have the bands, bracket and trace-loop made integral, but it is perfectly obvious that the same may be made separately and afterwards secured together in any suit-able or convenient manner. The breast-strap ring-holding bracket 5 extends from band 7 to band 7 and is provided therein midway between the two bands with a suitable opening 8 into which is secured a breast-strap rin 8, as shown.

The numerals 9, 9, in icate screw-threaded openings in said attachment, one above and the other below the trace-loop, and 10, 10, suitable binding screws adapted to set in said screw threaded openings and secure said attachment to the hame-bar. The ends of the binding screws 10, 10, are hollow or concaved for the urpose of affording a greater binding sur f ace on the metallic strip 2 of the hame-bar. By reason of the draftsustaining portion of the hame-bar being of uniform size the attachment 3 may be adjusted to any portion thereof, as des1red, and securely held thereto by means of the set screws 10, 10, as is evident. It is also obvious that by reason of the arran ement and location of the breast-strap brac et and the ring secured therein, the attachment may be used on either hame-bar without making any difference in the appearance of a palr of hames.

Having thus fully described my invention what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

In a pair of hames, the combination with a hame-bar havin the draft-sustaining portion of its lengtl a of about the same size throughout, of an adjustable trace-loop and breast-strap bracket, and bands for holding said trace-loop and breast-strap bracket to the hame-bar, said breast-Strap bracket be- In testimony whereof I aifix my signature, 111g lntegral wlth sald bands and trace loop 111 presence of two Witnesses. and s0 arranged and posltloned that the center of its draft will be midway between GLOLGL *SILUPNTHALER the two bands and set screws for clamping \Vitnesses: said parts in any desired position on the JOHN J. LEIIMANN,

draft-sustaining portion of the hame-bar. ELLA TUCKERMAN. 

